Wasser – Risikofaktor auch für deutsche Unternehmen

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Stahl aus Südafrika, Baumwolle aus Pakistan oder Chemikalien aus China –auch wenn Wasser in Deutschland nicht knapp ist, sind deutsche Unternehmen erheblichen Wasserrisiken ausgesetzt, wie eine neue Studie des WWF zeigt: Durch globale Lieferanten- und Produktionsstrukturen „importieren“ Unternehmen mit den Warenströmen auch negative Auswirkungen aus Regionen mit hohem Wasserstress. Risiken für Unternehmen ergeben sich dabei nicht nur direkt aus der Wasserknappheit und…

UN Climate Summit 2014 New York

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon invited the world leaders to „to galvanize and catalyze climate action“ at the UN Climate Summit 2014. Several activities around the summit as the Climate Week NY with more than 300,000 people joining the Climate March show the importance. Everybody can participate with Engagement in one of the eight Action Areas…

Science-based emission reduction targets

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An initiative of CDP, UN Global Compact, WRI and WWF, has released with the Mind the Science and Mind the Gap initiative a draft methodology for public comment how to set science-based emission reduction targets. This should ensure that reduction targets are staying under the the global 2° C temperature increase. Such metholdologies might also…

WRI – Choose your emission pathway

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The World Resources Institute took the recent IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) to illustrate possible emissions pathways in an infografic Choose Your Future: 4 Possible Emissions Pathways from World Resources Institute (WRI) Learn more about the WRI Find the Fifth IPCC Assemsment Report here.

Scope 2 Accounting – treatment of green power

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An increasing number of companies tend to purchase or even generate green power. Today the focus is mainly on green electricity out of renewable sources or considered as low-carbon or „carbon free“ electricity. Despite some clear physical basic conditions it is fact that there are market instruments and technologies out there. These instruments should make…